open | your baddest behavior

[cozen]

WHO: Alexandrie, Bastien, Byerly, and their captive audience
WHAT: Mandatory etiquette and dance lessons
WHEN: Justinian 15, 9:45
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: See the OOC post and IC announcement for more information! If you didn't sign up, you can still participate in Parts A and D, and just handwave the other two, without needing to sign up or get an assignment. If you want to do B and C, you can find your own dance partner/seating group OOC, or you can sign up now and we'll dole out new assignments if we get enough latecomers to do so. If you signed up and are missing from the lists when you shouldn't be, I'm sorry and please tell me!

disclaimer: event less fancy than pictured

Seating Assignments
— Table One: Gwenaëlle, Iorveth, Matthias, Athessa
— Table Two: Flint, Ilias, Darras, Med Seller, Yngvi
— Table Three: Julius, Thranduil, Anders, Brienne
— Table Four: Benedict, Colin, Valentine, Six, Derrica
— Table Five: Teren, Salvio, Bartimaeus, Osana
— Table Six: Freddie, Petrana, Kain, Merrill, Silver
— Table Seven: Yseult, Cosima, Steve, Inessa
— Table Eight: Sidony, Fifi, Nell, Fingon
— Table Nine: Thor, Nathaniel H., Solas, Skadi

Dance Partners
— Cosima & Nathaniel H.
— Athessa & Anders
— Teren & Flint
— Freddie & Bartimaeus
— Yseult & Darras
— Nell & Julius
— Merrill & Colin
— Skadi & Benedict
— Gwenaëlle & Solas
— Petrana & Salvio
— Osana & the Medicine Seller
— Sidony & Matthias
— Six & Thranduil
— Brienne & Valentine
— Fifi & Steve
— Thor & Fingon
— Ilias & Iorveth

Comments

[rowancrowned]

Thranduil smiles. “At least that keeps between worlds.”

Status, money, languages—the Rifters had Trade upon arrival, which was a small mercy, even as it indicated something preternatural about their origins. Still, better to have a tongue to insist they were harmless than to babble at one another.

He glances at Julius before returning to his meal. “Do you play chess, madame?”

[justice_is_blond]

"Is chess another thing that keeps between worlds?"

That's been something he's been mildly curious about - what similarities there were. Some worlds didn't have magic, for instance, and he doesn't know what to think about those. Others didn't seem to have the constant war and struggle Thedas did, though still others had just as much.

Anders abandons the fish and goes on to the small, dainty ridiculousness. At least he can manage that with some grace.

"Everyone knows of swords even if they don't use them anymore, from what I've gathered. Everyone seems to know tea. But there are a lot of things that aren't common in every world." Or in the Fade, with the spirit-Rifters, but that doesn't strike him as polite conversation.

[overharrowed]

"Of course -- forgive me, I should have asked to see whether chess was a useful metaphor. Madame de Cedoux is fond of beating me soundly at it, so I didn't think." He imagines, as busy as Petrana is, that her status as a rifter is well enough known he doesn't need to spell it out; if he's wrong, he supposes context will fill in the reason he mentioned her.

"I suppose humanity being what it is, if you lack it, you likely have some other form of game based on martial strategy?"

[servility]

Ah, the benefits of a multi-legged conversation - she hasn't even the time to admit that no, she does not play chess, before the other two have contributed enough context for Brienne to offer a somewhat more educated response.

"The closest game like it would likely be Cyvasse," she says after finishing a bite of her fish. "I've not played it myself, but I know a man who speaks quite highly of it." It's far more popular in Essos, but that's hardly a useful statement to three men who don't even know of Westeros, let alone the surrounding continents.

[rowancrowned]

"What do you like to do with your free time?" Thranduil offers, to keep the conversation along. Brienne has ended up the focus of their conversation, and he finds that perfectly acceptable. Given the way his wife eyes her when she's not focusing on Iorveth or, rather, unfocused, he supposes he'll need something to add to the conversation later in regards to his table partner.

"When you are not training," he amends, because it's obvious she does.

i think it makes sense for her to answer here real quick??

[servility]

In contrast, Brienne herself would very much rather not have been the focus of their conversation... But she'll manage, as she always has in such instances. At least this time the attention seems friendly enough.

"Nothing terribly interesting, I'm afraid." Assuming that discussing training and caring for her blade and armor count as training for the sake of the question. "In Westeros, I'd accompany My Lady on whatever errands she needs attend, which took quite a bit of my time. I've never felt much need for a hobby."

Yeah.

[justice_is_blond]

"I'd little time for a hobby before this either." Little time for eating and sleep for that matter, but thankfully there's no way possession qualifies as polite conversation.

"Now I read a great deal and bang my head against the wall trying to find cures for things." He shrugs, smiling faintly. While he's made progress, he's also fairly certain bragging doesn't count as polite either. "I'm certain there are any number of hobbies someone can pick up here. Um. Like drawing, or getting good at Wicked Grace."

[overharrowed]

"I'm fairly certain no one takes up a hobby out of boredom here," Julius says with a faint smile. "So they tend to be a way to relieve stress, more than anything. I can't say I have any hobbies, as such. Occasionally I work on research that isn't strictly project-related, but I've been told that doing more work does not count as leisure." More or less exclusively by people who have the exact same problem.

"You might learn Wicked Grace, if you're not averse to games. It's a good way to get to know people, since most Thedosians know it and a fair number of rifters have picked it up as well."